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The Treatment

Patty Jenkins: Wonder Woman

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Director Patty Jenkins joins the DC Comics world with her take on Wonder Woman.

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:14.5

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You know, it's been way too long since Patty Jenkins made a movie. It played in theaters.

0:21.4

I met her.

0:22.1

This is how far back we go.

0:23.5

I met her at the premiere party from Monster in New York, just barely in the 21st century.

0:29.3

And here it is a scan 70 years later that we get to see her follow-up after flirting with a few other movies, Wonder Woman.

0:35.6

First of all, it's so great to have you here.

0:37.4

Thank you, Elvis. It's so great to have you here.

0:38.3

Thank you, Elvis.

0:39.9

It's so awesome to see you.

0:40.7

So great.

0:45.2

Like I was saying, before we got started being blinded by the glare from your bullets for bracelets over there.

0:47.9

It's great to talk to you about this movie because I am, I don't know if you know, I'm a big

0:51.5

comics person.

0:52.8

And let's start with that. Let's start

0:54.8

with the idea that Wonder Woman is one of the few comics in its original incarnation that had

1:00.2

the creator's name on it. And the creator's name was a pseudonym. But that also, that there is

1:05.1

an interesting kind of pop feel to it. But there was a density, I thought, to it. And when I was

1:10.7

talking to you about before

1:11.6

we got started, is that you don't confuse darkness for density, and you want to give this

1:16.7

movie density, didn't you? I did. Yeah. And I think, I mean, I think that the greatest thing

1:21.3

about comics and the reason that I love them, too, is that I feel that they have the potential

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